Overview
- Austria’s Financial Market Authority authorized KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider under the EU’s MiCA framework.
- The authorization enables passported services across 29 EEA countries with Malta excluded from coverage.
- Approved activities include custody and administration of crypto-assets, crypto–fiat and crypto–crypto exchange services, the placing of crypto-assets, and transfer services on behalf of clients.
- KuCoin said EEA customers will be served through KuCoin EU and that new EEA registrations on KuCoin Global are no longer available.
- The move advances KuCoin’s compliance roadmap, following AUSTRAC registration in Australia, and places the firm among a small cohort of MiCA-approved providers in Austria.